I joined the board out of a fervent belief that literacy is the most important skill a child can learn—from decoding information to unlocking stories that capture the imagination. 

Achieve Now's programming leverages volunteers to teach phonics to local Philly school children, providing essential building block skills to supplement their regular literacy class time. 

Why Give Now?

Philadelphia schools closed on March 13th as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, resulting in a 391-hour instructional deficit in the 2019-2020 school year for some of America's most vulnerable children. This year, Philadelphia schools are opening in an all-virtual model, and Achieve Now has followed suit by transitioning our research-based phonics curriculum to fit remote learning! You can provide high-quality, one-on-one, virtual literacy instruction to at-risk children to give them a fighting chance to succeed in life.

Since 2015, Achieve Now has been working to bring all students up to grade-level reading to improve their chances of future success. Many students graduate the program with an average improvement of three grade levels in their reading scores.